Attached to God
A Practical Guide to Deeper Spiritual Experience
- Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Why does God feel so far away? The reason--and the solution--is in your attachment style. We all experience moments when God's love and presence are tangible. But we also experience feeling utterly abandoned by God. Why? The answer is found when you take a deep look at the other important relationships in your life and understand your attachment style. Through his years working in trauma recovery programs, extensive research into attachment science, and personal experiences with spiritual striving and abuse, licensed therapist Krispin Mayfield has learned to answer the question: Why do I feel so far from God? When you understand your attachment style you gain a whole new paradigm for a secure and loving relationship with God. You'll gain insights about: How you relate to others--both your strengths and weaknesses The practical exercises you can use to grow a secure spiritual attachment to God How to move forward on the spirituality spectrum and experience the Divine connection we all were created for You'll learn to identify and remove mixed messages about closeness with God that you may have heard in church or from well-meaning Christians. With freedom from the past, you can then chart a new path toward intimate connection with the God of the universe.
Endorsements (7)
“What a refreshing and uncynical confrontation of the toxic spirituality that many of us inherited from our intimate relationships. This book looks at how God transcends the brokenness to meet us where we are. Krispin has written a practical resource that intersects both character work and spiritual formation for many of us who are trying to find the God that is better and more reliable than even our most intimate relationships.”
“This book normalizes our insecurities about God and faith. It gives us language for understanding our patterns of seeking closeness, untangles us from bad theology concerning mental health, and invites us on a realistic journey to wholeness. Full of psychological research and theological insight, this book is a gift.”
“If you have found your faith squeezed into various boxes of shame, anxiety, and disillusionment, Attached to God is a shaft of light. This book is like therapy and theology: it will gently bloom you open and graciously begin the work of repair. Krispin’s wisdom is field-tested and filled with story, evidence, and Scripture. Krispin brings us back to the places where harm set in, exposing that the fault was not with us but with the fault lines of the structures we were handed, then by degrees walks us toward a solid and secure foundation. Thank you, Krispin, for being our guide through this terrain.”
“This is a powerful book for anyone struggling to relate deeply and openly with God. Reading it touched me in profound ways and has helped me heal from the distorted messages I’ve received about how God wants to connect with me!”
“Attached to God makes me so happy and hopeful! This is such important information for people trying to make sense of their relationship with God. Many of us struggle with a faith life that leaves us feeling anxious or disconnected in different ways no matter what we do. In relatable and easy-to-grasp language, Krispin reveals how this happens through the science of human attachment. In doing so, he offers us hope to step out of the pull of our messy, imperfect attachment histories and into a more secure relationship with God.”
“A brilliant blend of attachment science and spiritual development, Attached to God will help you understand more about yourself, about the people around you, and about God. Mayfield deftly challenges Christian teachings based in shame, guilt, and “should,” pointing instead to the individual and unique ways that each of us can connect with a loving and graceful God.”
“Growing up in church was confusing and hard because when I struggled in life, I thought it was because I didn’t pray hard enough. In this book, Krispin articulated everything I have grown to understand but never really had the words to express. This book will give you better understanding and help you create a deeper relationship with God.”
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